Every Linux admin is familiar with the long time running through a large directory tree (with hundred of thousands of files and more) can take. Most are aware that if you re-run the same run-through, it will be shorter. This is caused by a short-valid filesystem cache, where the memory is allocated to other tasks,…
I was required to utilize a transparent proxy. The general idea was to follow a diagram as the one here: The company did not want any information (http, https, ftp, whatever) to pass directly through the firewall from the internal network to the external network. If we can move it all via some sort of…
In the long forgotten days of NT4, there was not Unicode. In these older days, one could use English, and the language the server machine was predefined for. In our poor and sad case, English alone. This is a story of a poor filer, member of a multi-site NT4 domain, which, due to latency and…
